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Chest of drawers

Object number

RIF1508

Maker

Maker Unknown
Maker, possibly by Joseph Rawson, Sr., 1760?1835

Dimensions

33 1/2 × 41 1/2 × 21 in. (85.09 × 105.41 × 53.34 cm)

Date

1785–1805

Current location

The White House

Geography

Made in Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany (primary); pine and poplar (secondary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

John S. Walton, Inc., New York, 1974; sold to White House Historical Association, Washington, D.C.

Associated names

John S. Walton, Inc.

See also

Bibliography

"John S. Walton Antiques, Inc., advertisement," Antiques (January 1974): 4, ill.